Hello Spazzy and all

Nice icon, Penguin :)

Thanks Elara,
Yes, I finally broke down and coughed up a little money.

Wheee

Hi Orb

a new icon

Hiya, Orb. Was that a "I'm done" whee or a "hi!" whee? :)

That was my done...

Someday I'll be as fast as you. ;)

What is really funny is that I'm actually faster here now than I am on paper

at first I always printed out and worked on paper

Any clue why?

couldn't stand the interface

Yeah, but why would that make you faster here now, wouldn't it just be equal?

my handwriting is messy, and the UI will tell you if you make you make an obvious mistake

oh, true :)

(use the same number in a box/line)

I don't usually do that, but being 100% sure I haven't messed up lets me go faster

what I do *REALLY* wish we had here was keyboard entry. I'd love to be able to use the arrows to move between boxes and key a number from the keyboard instead of the mouse

click click click is too painful

I have to agree with you, Orb. A keyboard entry would be much easier for me.

the really nice thing about here is that the when you do click on a box, you are centered at exactly the same place, so you kind of have that keyboard like muscle memory even with the mouse

so bonus points to the good doctor for giving us that :)

Finished! Tonight's "Easy" really was.

hooray

I would still prefer a keyboard alternative. On the other hand, IronSudoku is the best interface I have found so far.

Yay, done here too :)

It really does grow on you - many of the other online sudokos are painful to play

so painful that I stick to the non-web ones

Congrats Elara.

Well, it's time for me to find my shower and then my bed. Good night everyone.

on the other hand, if someone knows of something good out there, I'd love to hear about it

Night :)

see ya tommorrow

morning all

Morning, sprite :)

hi all

hey all, is this one easy like yesterday? lol

So far it is very easy. And I am almost done :)

sweet

Hiya Raggedy & Chebuctonian :)

how ya doing elara?

Good, just trying to catch up on some old ones I'd never done. :) You?

tired, just got done watching the godfather part 1, but refuse to go to bed w/out finishing my sudoku

*grin* :)

Great feature, that archive that remains accessible :)

haha, well im a college kid that is still wondering how i am going to pay for my next tank of gas, i dont need to add that to the mix

Where do you go to school? (and are you taking summer classes, or working this summer?)

lol

And yeah sprite, sure is :)

Hi all

Hiya, NJL :)

I go to Georgia Tech, but taking summer classes(english 1 and 2) at a small college(that can transfer to GT), and I am working simultaneously, at least trying to

Cool. And nice to get some of those extra credits out of the way during the summer

Done, just one logic step after another the whole puzzle through. This one lives up to its rating. Off to babbleland :)

See ya, sprite

definitely, plus i got a much nicer professor! than the one i had at GT(and dropped)

The right prof. makes all the diff.

oh goodness yes!, i caught on to how to true that was about midway through my first semester of college

Just nice when you can actually manage a choice. :)

hi all

oops made a mistake on an easy one

Hiya, Peter :)

nice icon

Mine? It's the logo for Sweet Adelines (intl. women's singing organization. There are choruses in Aus. too :) )

They should be big in Adelaide ;-)

*grin* :)

gotta go, the kids want me to play with them

done

now i can finally rest in peace, gnight all!

I'm outta here too. Night, folks :)

go

done

hyu7uu2iqVAC sw

SORY, THAT WAS MY KIDS GRR

so was the caps lock :/

and they've restarted the game for me!!! Anyone want 3 under 8's?

nope! they are allllll yours, ginger!

gooooood evening / morning / whatever, everyone!

hey

and I just finished!

woo hoo!

the problem with the easy ones is that they're over too quickly!

Done

But ... there is a non-unique rectangle :-(

Ahh, but one of them is solid, ok, never mind.

good morning everybody

done with no greening

ello

done

Hello Everybody

well better go bye all

ho hum

GRACE

hello

hello

hello

damn double postings

hehe sounds like me with F11...i HATE F11!!!

haha

this is simple

yeah i did it earlier this morning... i'm on may 12th now

Anyone have that auto-fill green numbers Java code handy?

ummm....what is that?

that was going to be my question too...

it's javascript!

no

explain?

Someone said it was in his/her profile, oh well I'll ask again later

Oh wait, chat archives.....DUH

:-)

mmmkay...well if you find it please tell us what it does and how to do it if you wouldn't mind... :)

scribble: it inserts all greens, then removes all the ones which are obviously false

though imo it's cheating :)

ditto on that request :-P

not really... it makes it more easy... i mean cheating isn't cheating unless you have the absolute correct answers sitting right there in front of you.

I would ask you use this only as a last resort, but here you go

Copy and paste the following into the Address Bar and hit Enter, and voila

javascript:for (i=1; i<=9; i++) {for (j=1; j<=9; j++) {if (grid[i][j].value == '') {ClearTinySquares(i,j);}}}for (i=1; i<=9; i++) {for (j=1; j<=9; j++) {if (grid[i][j].value != '') {var tmp_value = grid[i][j].value;for (k=1; k<=9; k++) {for (l=1; l<=9; l++) {if (grid[k][l].value == '') {if ((Math.ceil(i/3) == Math.ceil(k/3) && Math.ceil(j/3) == Math.ceil(l/3)) || i == k || j == l) {grid[k][l]['mini'][tmp_value] = -1;}}}}}}}for (i=1; i<=9; i++) { for (j=1; j<=9; j++) { if (grid[i][j].value == '') { for (k=1; k<=9; k++) { if (grid[i][j]['mini'][k] != -1) grid[i][j]['mini'][k] = 1; }}}}for (i=1; i<=9; i++) {for (j=1; j<=9; j++) {if (grid[i][j].value == '') {for (k=1; k<=9; k++) {if (grid[i][j]['mini'][k] != 1) grid[i][j]['mini'][k] = 0;}}}}PopulatePuzzle(grid);void(0);

VVVVVV NOT MY WORK

thank you seedy....i promise to only use it if i really need too. :)

the crux being that you never really need to, because the script does nothing you couldn't do yourself ;)

Exactly

My shift key is forever in debt to that code snippet

exactly so theres really no point...

Actually if you already made some advanced elimination via unique pairs and whatnot it hurts you by throwing those possibilities back in

whats a crux?

Dictionary
crux (krÅ­ks, krÊŠks) pronunciation
n., pl. crux·es or cru·ces (krū'sēz).

1. The basic, central, or critical point or feature: the crux of the matter; the crux of an argument.
2. A puzzling or apparently insoluble problem.

[Probably short for Medieval Latin crux (interpretum), torment (of interpreters), from Latin crux, cross.]

http://www.answers.com/crux&r=67

aha i learned a new word today! :) thx douglas!

np :)

Done!!!

Wow

Nailed that puppy!

Rank me, baby!

btwrt, are you there??

BTWRT!!!

*sigh* *goes away disappointedly*

lo all

hello...

How do I get the icons

you have to go "pro"...I can't remember the cost - it's a one time fee...you also get 'checkpoints' (I think they're free the first 2 or 3 weeks...)

I've done that

go under "my account" and then you can upload a picture (it has to be a gif or jpeg)

K, thanks

It didn't work

I'll sort it out later today

i find it easier to do it through the url, angus... just find a picture you like online, copy the link and paste it in

sorry, copy the url... now you see why i like what's technologically easiest :)

Ta Leslie